Word: victims
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...making the criminal; certainly a far greater role than many are prepared to admit." But he thinks "environmental influences are of particular importance for a criminal because his very nature includes a far greater amount of suggestibility than the average man. In this way he often becomes a helpless victim of any environment in which he happens to find himself...
...rate angler. He thought his success due "to careful and thorough fishing of the difficult places which others do not so fish." Once out shooting he peppered a stranger by mistake. ''Webster rushed up and asked solicitously: 'My dear sir, did I hit you?' The victim, still rubbing his shoulder, said ruefully: 'Yes, you did hit me; and from your looks, I should think that I am not the first man you have shot, either...
...warriors are allowed to go on a head-hunt. As soon as a lucky group is chosen, the rest of the tribe dances, prays to hundreds of gods to send them many heads. When the warriors arrive in enemy country they construct a small hut for ambush. The first victim to appear has a spear thrown at him. Ifugao etiquet demands that the one who throws the fatal spear gets the head. Other warriors are supposed to stand by and watch while the killer dances over the fallen body, slashes the neck with his long knife, wets his fingers...
...alive, vital and dynamic. He has a power that cannot be acquired-that received from his mother. She gave him her love, which cannot be gotten from an institution. Bishop Spencer received in his home the courageous attitude that great men have. "Furthermore, he is not a victim of theological training. His knowledge and philosophy are wide. He is an advocate of truth and the truth he preaches he practices. He has created a spiritual world that time cannot obliterate. . . . "There is not a vestige of hate in Bishop Spencer, and if he were here tonight there would...
...ugly impression of negligence, or at least undue haste, grew yet higher with the testimony of Vice-Marshal Dowding. Fearing the dirigible was unfit for the long voyage, he said, he ordered Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore (another crash victim) to run a full power test as soon as possible after casting off from the mooring mast at Cardington. Apparently this order was ignored...